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Three hundred and twenty-seven certificates were issued by the Police for the removal of dead bodies from the Colony, as compared with 695 in 1902.

EXHUMATION.

Eighty-two permits were issued to exhume human remains for removal to China or for re-burial in the Colony.

HOSPITAL DEATHS.

Table IV (D.) contains a return of the number of deaths in hospital. They amount to 1,486 or 24 per cent. of the total number of deaths registered during the year.

Table IV (E.) gives particulars regarding the Tung Wa Hospital. The number of patients under treatment during the year was 2,457 as compared with 2,730 in 1902. Of these, 1,569 were discharged and 889 died. The percentage of deaths. compared with admissions during the year was 36.2. In 1902 the percentage was 45.34, and in 1901 24.40.

The number of out-patients during the year was :—

Males, Females,

Total,.......................

VACCINATION ORDINANCE.

(No. 5 of 1890.)

..49.376

.23,467

..72.843

The total number of

vaccinations recorded during the year was 5,048 as com- pared with 6,475 in 1902. There were 19 prosections under this Ordinance during the year.

1902.

There were 60 cases of small-pox and 31 deaths during the year.

REGISTRATION OF BOOKS.

(Ordinance No. 10 of 1888.)

Eighty-four books were registered during the year, as compared with 36 in

COPYRIGHT IN WORKS OF THE FINE ARTS.

(Ordinance No. 24 of 1901.)

No works were registered during the year.

REGISTRATION OF HOUSEHOLDERS.

(Ordinance No 13 of 1888, Chap. III.)

Table V gives particulars regarding the issue of householders' certificates.

PERMITS.

(Ordinance No. 13 of 1888, Chap. V.)

The nature and number of permits issued during the year were as follows:—

To fire crackers,

To perform theatricals,

.512

To hold processions,

28

39

To hold religious ceremonies,

40

Total,

.619

INTERPRETATION DEPARTMENT.

The Interpretation Department consists of 54 posts as described in General Order No. 39, amended on the 26th February. There are at present six student- interpreters attached to the office all appointed during the present year, two in February, one in June, two in July and one in September.